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Mums on benefit have 'important job' - Maori Council exec

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Mon, 09 Aug 2010 4:31p.m.

There are calls for work training schemes to be re-introduced before beneficiaries who have never been in a job are forced into the labour market.

The Welfare Working Group report says New Zealand's system is unsustainable, and too many people have been on benefits for too long.

A Maori Council executive, Manu Paul, agrees and says many Maori families have never worked.

But Mr Paul says he doesn't support mothers with young children being forced into work as they have an important job to do at home.

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22 Feb 2011 12:00p.m.

Luke wrote:

What happened to on the job training? Oh thats right it was priced out of existence when minimum wages were introduced. And replaced with student loan schemes that push education prices up even more.

12 Oct 2010 05:13p.m.

David wrote:

@Dan & Ian - wow, more ignorant, right-wing bigotry from the beneficiary bashing brigade. And yes, the truth does hurt Dan, there are actually people out there who need the assistance, such is the inefficiency of capitalist wealth distribution. It is obvious, beneficiary bashing is comparable to inciting racial hatred and thus must be censored in a likewise manner.

16 Aug 2010 02:11p.m.

Dan wrote:

@Yvonne: Poor excuses.
@Charlie: Truth hurts.
@Ian: Fully agree with you.
Amazing the BS handed out by the benficiaries to the rest. Better still lets shut down the benefits system and let the families on it either choose to work and feed their families as the rest of us do or leave. We certainly did not ask them to raise huge families when they do not have the means to support them. BTW what were they doing when there was no such system in place in the past?

12 Aug 2010 01:13p.m.

Jim wrote:

Mr Paul
I agree that they have an important job to do, but judging by the news reportsd I would say that some of them do not deserve children (I do stress the word "some")!!!

11 Aug 2010 05:54p.m.

charlie wrote:

That is a bit Rich wouldn't you say Ian.....

11 Aug 2010 12:59p.m.

Ian wrote:

To "Yvonne Puti" I note your deep concern about the costs to the government (actually WORKING taxpayers money) in the
bringing up, of your delightful little brood of 8.
A much cheaper option for the rest of the NZ taxpayer, would have been for you to have used a contraceptive, or for you, to have just kept your legs crossed, that indeed, would have been a MUCH CHEAPER outcome, for the rest of us poor buggers who now support you.
who are supporting you.

09 Aug 2010 08:11p.m.

Yvonne Puti wrote:

I agree with Manu Paul there are many who have never seen work due to there dependence on welfare, nevertheless the job of a mum isn't the easiest especially when it's unpaid, long hours and sometimes thankless. But my issue is alot of mothers have to stay home regardless of the ages, while at work we will worry if our children are safe, up to mischeif, walking the streets, are the afterschool care coping with the children, it is endless. As mothers we can control our childrens behaviour more efficently from home as we are the enforcers of routines, safety and home conforts. For myself a mother of 8 currently studying with a home based learning course, till i am confident my children will be safe and i trust them enough i will find employment, it's not the matter of wanting to be on a benefit it's a matter of no choice. How i see it, what i get as a beneficiary cost less then having my children misbehave to the point of eg: imprisionment which would cost alot more, not saying that might be the outcome for all but if you look at it one way or another it's going to cost the government